A former mayor of a California town and his wife have been sentenced to 6 months in jail for the theft of more than $20,000 from
Jim Nehmens, 50, and Kelly Nehmens, 44, pleaded guilty to grand theft by embezzlement and perjury Thursday.
The eight-year councilman and Adelanto mayor had resigned from his post on March 31, about a week before he and his wife were arrested.
The former mayor was president of the Adelanto Little League
Little League coffers., and his wife was a board member during the years the money from the leagues's annual fireworks sales went missing. The money was taken over three years starting in 2004.
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